Resentment Quotes

The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.

~ R.d. Ronald

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

~ Neal Shusterman

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart, and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.

~ Hope Mirrlees

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

~ Al Capp

Be patient, resentment will always reveal itself.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.

~ Jamie George

12 Things To Ditch For A Great DayBlameGuiltWorryRegretResentmentEntitlementSelf-pityLazinessNegative attitudeFear of embarrassmentUrge to one-up othersYour comfort zone

~ Charles F. Glassman

Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he resented the moment that came in its place. Even if the moment was beautiful and was something he valued, and made him who he was. He could not help but also long for that other life in which he lived with Della, even if she abused him.

~ Amanda Coplin

We say, It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. I’m making all this stuff up. All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me as a child.Friends asked, “What did she do to you?“ I couldn't really describe it, and in frustration would say, “Well, she didn't lock us up in closets. in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.

~ Sarah E. Olson

She was so wicked. Such a classic case of resentment and ambivalence bumping and brushing up against all that maternal instinct. The love and hate in her was as vast as space- all meteors, no atmosphere.

~ Laura Kasischke

Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

~ Colson Whitehead

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

~ Bob Monkhouse

Work is the undoing of nature.

~ Paul Majkut

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

~ John Fowles

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

~ Malachy Mccourt

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.But she wanted to.

~ Marie Rutkoski

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement. She looked at the woman in conflict and said, Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy. The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, And how do you do that? she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. By changing the way you think.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

~ J.d. Salinger

It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

~ Kaori Ozaki

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment.

~ Dieter F. Uchdorf

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

~ Robert Sheaffer

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

~ Roberto Assagioli

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

~ Richard Perle

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

~ Peter Mcwilliams